Maybe next time, you can plant the decorative stuff in a separate patch?
p.s. I didn't need all of the seeds I bought from gurneys. With the
left-over seeds, should I keep them sealed in their paper envelopes or should
I pour them into something like used prescription bottles (that is about the
most airtight , yet simple and free, idea I can imagine)
--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> It's going to be especially challenging in my winter
> squash patch. I'm
> growing about 10 varieties of winter squash and eating
> pumpkins, and another
> 10 or so varieties of gourds and decorative pumpkins.
> Seed-savers have
> methods of pollinating and taping the female flowers shut.
> I'll be lucky if
> I can find a male and female from the same variety, they
> way they crawl all
> over each other.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
>